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Sanitary Pads Tax-Free: More Affordable for Conflict-Affected Women
Nigeria’s government announced tax-free policy on sanitary pads making them more available and affordable. Lower income women use pieces of cloth to manage their monthly flow, which is unhygienic and harmful. Tax removal will improve health condition
Thousands of ‘stateless’ internally displaced persons urgently need to get birth certificates
Addressing low birth registration rates, especially of displaced people, is the only way to prove their entitlement to citizenship and associated rights, such as the right to stay in the country
Notorious Marlian gang: Governor orders immediate crackdown to stop savage attacks
Video of Marlian gang members clubbing, stabbing and killing a police officer shocks Borno State citizens
Prohibitive fuel prices are slaughtering one of the largest cattle markets in Nigeria
Kasuwan Shanu cattle market in Maiduguri in Borno State has been described as a ghost of what it once was as the high cost of living takes its toll on Nigerians
Starvation plagues internally displaced persons who often go to bed with empty bellies
The exorbitant cost of food has resulted in a change of eating habits among IDPs – most eat only one meal a day but many go to bed without even that
Nigeria on high alert as anthrax confirmed on a mixed livestock farm Niger State
Even remote and insecure hard-to-reach areas in Borno State will be covered as countrywide anthrax vaccination campaign starts in earnest
Education is a basic human right, not a privilege
After 14 years of conflict, thousands of internally displaced children – particularly girls – are missing out on schooling
Gender-based violence is on the rise as humanitarian crisis deepens in Nigeria’s northeast
While their wives receive aid assistance, husbands regard them as assets … but when the aid stops the women became liabilities, nothing more than sex slaves and punch bags
Farmers seek divine intervention for steady rainfall during this year’s dry wet season
The low and erratic rain during the wet season this year has prompted religious leaders and traditional rulers in Borno State to enjoin thousands of farmers and others to pray earnestly to Almighty Allah to intervene to provide steady rainfall, witho
Babies suffer from malnutrition because their mothers cannot afford exorbitant price of food
A lactating mother needs nutritious food to produce enough breast milk to feed her newborn – but, with the exorbitant price of food, some mothers are struggling and are feeding their babies pap instead.
Unwanted pregnancies and unsafe abortions the plight of many internally displaced women
Before the closure of official, state-run internally displaced persons’ camps in Maiduguri, women had easy access to sexual and reproductive health services – now they have to deal with unwanted pregnancies and, often, unsafe abortions.
